90 ordspråk av Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot föddes den 3 februar 1826 och dog den 24 mars 1877 - one of the most influential journalists of the mid-Victorian period.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

He believes, with all his heart and soul and strength, that there is such a thing as truth; he has the soul of a martyr with the intellect of an advocate.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

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The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions -

Sivilisasjon

The real essence of work is concentrated energy

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings

Life

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Gud

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Woman absent is woman dead.

It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind ... more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

Business

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.

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